Soothe Psychology is a private psychology practice based in Sydney’s Upper North Shore. Soothe Psychology is owned and operated by clinical psychologists and husband-wife team, Satveer and Priyanka. At Soothe Psychology, we offer psychological treatment and assessment services, and clinical supervision for psychologists undertaking their clinical psychology registrar program.
At Soothe Psychology, our philosophy is to encourage and support our clients to discover thinking and behavioural patterns which may be affecting quality of life. Our goal is to help individuals not only overcome mental blocks which keep them stuck, but to live a life more in line with their values.
We understand that there is no one size fits all for therapy. We believe that therapy outcomes highly depend on the right fit in regard to psychologist and treatment approach. As such, we offer a range of psychologists who specialise in variety of psychological treatments and age groups.
We're about the patient, from the start to the end of our journey together.
Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Psychologist / BA-Psych; GDPsychSc; BPsych (Hons); MPsych(Clin)
Satveer (Satty) is clinical psychologist registered with the Australian Board of Psychology. Satty has completed a Bachelor of Psychological Studies; a Bachelor of Psychological Science with Honours; and a Master of Clinical Psychology. Satty truly believes that each client is the expert of their own life. As such, he takes on the role of being a client’s companion by being curious, empathetic and open to understanding and promoting change.
Satty is also a co-director and founder of Soothe Psychology in Sydney’s Upper North Shore. Through his many years of experience, Satty has always believed that the foundation of successful therapy is the provision of unconditional trust. Through his work at Soothe Psychology, he hopes that he can provide an environment of compassion, understanding and acceptance.
Satty works with individuals across the lifespan, with a special interest in the treatment of trauma, anxiety and mood disorders. Alongside psychological treatment, Satty has experience in the assessment and diagnosis of attention and specific learning issues. Satty’s main therapeutic approaches include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR). Satty truly believes that in order to achieve therapeutic growth, one must be open to exploring, collaboratively, the power that memories hold, and be willing to reappraise them with self-compassion.
Michelle Knight
Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Psychologist / BPsySt; GradDipCouns; GDPsychSc; BPsycSc(Hons); MPsych(Clin)
Priyanka is a clinical psychologist registered with the Australian Board of Psychology. Priyanka has completed a Bachelor of Psychological Studies; a Graduate Diploma of Counselling; a Bachelor of Psychological Science with Honours; and a Master of Clinical Psychology. Throughout her 12 years of training and experience in psychology and counselling, Priyanka has always felt motivated by her desire to instil change in
people’s lives.
Priyanka is also a co-director and founder of Soothe Psychology in Sydney’s Upper North Shore. Since starting her psychology journey, Priyanka has always felt passionate about one day creating her own private practice. In Soothe Psychology, Priyanka hopes that her clients will find a sense of calmness, safety, empowerment and willingness to share their life’s deepest vulnerabilities.
Priyanka’s believes that there is no one size fits all for therapy, rather, that the most important factor in therapy is the development of the therapeutic relationship between client and psychologist. Priyanka works with individuals across the lifespan, with a special interest in the treatment of anxiety and depression, self-esteem and identity issues, and the assessment of attention and specific learning difficulties. Priyanka’s main therapeutic approaches include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), both of which focus on the importance of thoughts and emotions, and the implementation of behavioural work to help reach acceptance or foster change.
Viktor Frankl
General Psychologist
Clinical Psychologist / BPsySt; GradDipCouns; GDPsychSc; BPsycSc(Hons); MPsych(Clin)
Van is a psychologist driven by a passion for seeing people heal, grow, and become antifragile in the face of adversity. She works alongside clients to deepen their understanding of their experiences, strengths, challenges, values, and choices, empowering them to create lives enriched by meaning, fulfilment, connection, and authentic self-expression.
Before psychology, Van forged a diverse career as a lawyer, regulator, experience and service designer, award-winning entrepreneur and co-founder, board director, lecturer, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, and customer experience transformation consultant. This breadth of experience provides her with a unique perspective on the complex personal, relational, organisational, and societal factors that shape human wellbeing.
Today, she brings this wealth of experience to supporting individuals, couples, families, and communities across the lifespan, from early childhood through to older adulthood. Her work has spanned community, health, disability, justice, workplace, and child protection settings, supporting people navigating crisis, trauma, disability, mental health challenges, substance use, suicidality, major life transitions, and complex systems. She works with people from diverse cultural, social, and economic backgrounds including First Nations youth in remote communities.
Van provides individual, couples, and group therapy, telehealth services, crisis support, suicide prevention interventions, and psychological assessment. Her approach is strengths-based, trauma-responsive, neuroaffirming, and culturally curious. She tailors therapy to each person’s needs while drawing from evidence-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Narrative Therapy, Schema Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Family Therapy, Positive Psychology, and Mindfulness-based approaches.
Van is particularly passionate about deepening connections, healing relational wounds, and disrupting cycles of intergenerational trauma. Her perspective is informed not only by professional training and a diverse career, but also by her experiences as a mother, someone who has navigated displacement, cultural and intergenerational tensions, and questions of identity and belonging, and someone who once questioned what psychology could offer that she did not already know about herself—only to discover its profound capacity to help people feel truly seen and, in turn, learn to truly see themselves. Having navigated the complexities of identity, belonging, cultural and intergenerational tensions, and systems that do not always recognise or make space for the full range of human experience, she understands how profoundly our sense of self is shaped through our relationships with people, place, culture, and community.
Through her work and lived experience, she is continually inspired by the inherent human capacity to adapt, evolve, and grow through adversity. She believes that while hardships are an inevitable part of life, they can also serve as powerful crucibles for deepening our connection—with ourselves, with others, the world, and with what it means to be human. She has witnessed firsthand the human capacity not merely to endure adversity, but to transform it into fertile ground from which renewal, deeper connection, and new possibilities can emerge — a process captured by the concept of antifragility.
Ernest Hemingway